- Family: Campanulaceae Juss.
- Genus: Lobelia Plum. ex L.
Lobelia pteropoda (C.Presl) A.DC.
- Genus: Lobelia Plum. ex L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Cape Prov. to Mozambique.
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Lobeliaceae, M. Thulin. Flora Zambesiaca 7:1. 1983
- Habit
- Annual or perennial (?) ± erect or decumbent herb up to 80 cm. tall.
- Stem
- Stems rather slender, ribbed, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.
- Leaves
- Leaves with the lamina triangular to very broadly ovate, up to 50 x 40 mm., acute to obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, truncate to cordate at the base, ± pubescent on both sides; all leaves with a winged ±, pubescent petiole up to 10–60 mm. long; leaf–margin very coarsely dentate or crenate with mucronulate teeth; venation distinct beneath.
- Flowers
- Flowers in lax, up to 6–flowered, pedunculate racemes; pedicels 3–7 mm. long, pubescent; bracts linear, up to 7 mm. long, entire, ± pubescent; bracteoles at or near the base of the pedicel, linear, up to 1 mm. long, often broadened at the tip,:±: pubescent.
- Hypanthium
- Hypanthium narrowly to broadly obconical, ± 8–nerved, glabrous or ± pubescent.
- Calyx
- Calyx–lobes narrowly triangular, 3–4·5 mm. long, entire, ± pubescent, somewhat gibbous at the base.
- Corolla
- Corolla 16–23 mm. long, pale blue to mauvish or white, with two longitudinal crests in the mouth of the tube, split to the base on the back, ± pubescent on the outside of the lobes, puberulous inside on the bottom of the tube.
- Filaments
- Filaments linear, glabrous, connate above.
- Anthers
- Anther–tube 2–2·5 mm. long, all anthers densely hairy at the apex, otherwise glabrous or with a few straight hairs on the connectives outside.
- Ovary
- Ovary semisuperior to subinferior.
- Fruits
- Capsule ± 8–nerved, glabrous or ± pubescent, with 2 valves ± 3 mm. long.
- Seeds
- Seeds ± broadly elliptic in outline, somewhat compressed, ± 0·7 mm. long, almost smooth, dark brown.
Native to:
Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique
Lobelia pteropoda (C.Presl) A.DC. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 7: 364 (1839)
Accepted by
- Lammers, T.G. (2007). World checklist and bibliography of Campanulaceae: 1-675. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Flora Zambesiaca
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